Friday, November 7, 2014

After the late death of the Backtrack and some developers went of the distribution to Kali Linux and others have started their own projects .. many security distributions and penetration appeared, today our appointment with the BlackArch distribution, a Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and comes with more than 1,000 tool to protect the free and ready penetration for use directly, making it a good distro for those interested in the field of security information.

Distribution like her mother, is installed via the command line, which also come in several windows system managers like FluxBox, OpenBox and Awesome and Spectrwm, it is very light to reduce consumption, and do not forget, it is based on Arch, which means latest packages and updates.

To download BlackArch or to add to their repository to Arch Linux, see this link.
Have you tried BlackArch before ? How was your experience with it ?

The community of OpenSUSE distro announced the release of the final version, 13.2 after months of constant development, the new version comes with several updates, such as the Linuxkernel 3.16 and GNOME Desktop 3.14, KDE 4.11 and 4.14,XFCE and the latest stable version of LXDE desktopenvironment.

Btrfs Filesystem has become is the default filesystem in openSUSE 13.2 for the root (/) while XFS is the default filesystem the Home folder (/ home), which is considered a significant change to the level of performance and speed, in fact, also been several improvements made to the package management application of openSUSE so-called "Yast2" such as removing support for GRUB Legacy and focus on supporting the GRUB 2 just as well to restructure Sticky distribution and make it more automatic in the performance of tasks, as well as to improve the formal aesthetic of the overall distribution and update all packets to the latest versions.

Speaking of KDE, Kda plasma 5 became available in the official repositories for anyone who wants to try it, and KDE 3.5 for those who wants to stay on it, GNOME Shell 3.14 is pre-existing and its applications, interface MATE 1.8 is also available official repository, also have been added several scientific applications to their own official repository such as Pythia and Yoda and Cadabra, in addition to many other features.

Sunday, November 2, 2014

After months of continuous development, Ubuntu developers announced release of Ubuntu finalrelease 14.10 of which, the new version did not come with any new features to remember it is just a version carries Last updated packages and bug fixes as well as to provide some additional packages to be installed through the official repositories, is not worth the upgrade to in fact especially as it is not LTS.

The new version came with LinuxKernel 3.16, Firefox and Thunderbird 33, LibreOffice 4.4.3.2, interface Unity 7.3, and the interface MATE becomes available for installation from the official repository and so on for the interface Unity 8, It has also updated the appearance a little bit by a new set of backgrounds for Ubuntu 14.10.